Red Hot Chili Peppers

Chickenfoot: weird name...new disc...wild tour...

source: Examiner.com

Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, best known as a funk-style drummer, excels as a rock drummer, perhaps due in large to who his rythm-mate is. Michael Anthony, formerly of Van Halen, is as astoundingly good in this day and age as Jack Bruce was ...

Published Tue, Jun 9

New band to get your claws into!

source: Suffolk Evening Star

 UK Our music is a bit Funk, a bit Rock/Grunge and very, very silly, but not in a novelty band way. Having a great time at band practices, and the love of different but cool music ie - Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Primus, Blur. ...

Published Tue, Jun 9

>GQ Daily

source: GQmagazine.co.uk

gt;GQ Daily  UK Californication was, as far as I know, a neologism first popularised by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their 1999 album of that name. Shamelessly calling a supposedly intelligent TV show after an album by the lame-brained punk-funk pioneers might sound ...

Published Wed, May 27

Music from the garage

source: Times of India

 India No two compositions of ours sound the same; there's acoustics, funk and alternative.” And, who are their inspirations? “Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Skrat!” he pipes, “We prefer new-age garage rock like that of the White Stripes.” For a band that ...

Published Wed, May 20

Sonic Youth - The Eternal

source: musicOMH.com

 UK What We Know's constant dum-dum-pah pounding and crazed fretwork is really a scuzzed-up appropriation of Radiohead's There, There, while No Way's riff-heavy funk is a brutalised homage to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. When The Eternal's brain is not ...

Published Fri, May 15

Maccabees cause mayhem at The Great Escape

source: again!

 UK Their Red Hot Chili Peppers sounding funk drew a big crowd in the small pub as the lead singer split the crowd in two for a good old 'which side is louder' sing off. Backed by a trumpet and saxophone duo, named the Horny Brassholes, the band played a ...

Published Fri, May 15

Gig review: Little Feat

source: Scotsman

 United Kingdom Former Bob Dylan axe-man Fred Tackett's funk-guitar playing could give Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante a few goose bumps, while congas player Sam Clayton, adopted his super-sexy "Big Willie Johnson" persona during Spanish Moon. ...

Published Thu, May 14

Robert Johnson's Greatest Hits — By Cream, Zeppelin, the Stones ...

source: Gibson

 TN “They're Red Hot,” Red Hot Chili Peppers: A punk-funk arrangement stretches Johnson's ragtime number, which closes the Peppers' 1991 classic Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Nuthin' bluesy about it. It's silly as Flea's bright blue hair. ...

Published Thu, May 7